There will also be an assortment of Spider-Man 3 movie figures, including new sculpts of Black and regular Spider-Man costumes. The line will be 5" and will have Sandman in addition to characters from the other films.

Update- Julius Marx just sent in a few camera phone pics of new stuff: "The Batman" Robin and Killer Moth figures, Justice Lords Hawkgirl 3-pack, JLU new packaging, and DC Direct Who's Who new series. Better pics of everything later tonight.

Lots of stuff is hitting all over the web now! I'll have an array of links in a moment, but first here's breaking news: toys that never were- Marvel Legends Villains!

Bad news- Toy Biz is showing everything that didn't make it this year for cost, and now will probably NEVER get made. These were to be the villain pack-ins with the "Bring on the Bad Guys" wave of ML 13. We would have seen Dr. Doom's Robot Guard, AIM scientist, Hellfire Club goon, Hydra drone, and Hand Ninja! You can also see Forbush Man with a tiny "Thor Frog" and the X-Babies PVCs (which would have come with the Mojo wave) off to the side. We can hope for one day they'll make it, but it's doubtful.

Breaking news! The Mattel Panel is going on right now (2pm PCT) and the news is trickling out; New figures for "The Batman: Shadowtek" line will include Robin, Metalhead, redecoed Batgirl & Penguin, and the much requested Joker in Suit and Killer Moth. JLU 10" will include Justice Lords Green Lantern, Justice Lords Flash, Translucent Martian Manhunter, Hourman (redecoed Atom) with cloth cape, Wonder Woman with cloth cape, and Aquaman with cloth cape.

DC Heroes 6" line- the Target exclusive 2-packs will be Superman/Bizarro, Clark Kent/Superman, New Batman/Batgirl (blue&grey Barbara Gordon!). Darkseid will be slightly bigger than Doomsday; packaging/costs keeping them smaller than ideal. There will be Baman and Superman rotocast figures of the 2-up sculpts. These will retail for $30 as a TRU exclusive and will have over 130 paint ops. In '07 the 6" line will have paper dioramas instead of comics. Mattel is looking at the logostics of doing a "Build a Figure" like Marvel Legends does. They are still trying to work out making the bases shown last year available by mail. They want to make a 6" Creeper and a new sculpt Robin.

Superman Returns line will be named "Superman:Man of Steel" in '07, and include Mongul and Metallo from the EA video game.

Superboy & the Legion of Superheroes animated cartoon will have a line of figures. First wave should include Superboy, Brainiac 5, Saturn Girl, Phantom Girl, Cosmic Boy, Bouncing Boy, and possibly Timberwolf. They are still deciding the exact character mix.

JLU- new packaging in '07. Justice Lords Hawkgirl is coming in a Target exclusive 3-pack. Still not allowed to make any Charleton characters (Question, Blue Beetle, Captain Atom). Possible choices down the road (but not definite) include Jonah Hex, Blue Devil, and Warhawk. They would like to make Gorilla Grodd, but he has the same packaging issues as Grundy did.

New JLU Diecast packaging

DC Direct & Marvel Select Pictures from SD Comics!

Superman Box Set

Alex Ross Justice- Lex & Braniac

Alex Ross Justice- Brainiac, Green Arrow, Red Tornado

Alex Ross Justice- Black Adam, Shazam, Grundy

Inifinite Crisis Wave 1

Elseworlds Figures

Batman/Superman 3

Atom 2-Pack

GL Wave 2

13" Cloth Figures

Batman/Superman 1 & 2

Marvel Select "Iron Spider"

Marvel Select Mephisto

Here's a rundown of what's being shown so far (click on the links to go there): Forum poster Vader has a nice array of Preview Night pics, SD Comics has more preview night pics also, here . Figures.com has shots of the McFarlane animated Spawn and Lost figures. Ain't It Cool News has some con reports here and here.

Wednesday July 19, 2006 - Preview Night

As usual, SD Comics has taken a quick walk around the floor on preview night and sent back his report. Expect more (and some pics!) to show up here as the night progresses. Here's his rundown of what was shown as the booths started unpacking:

New 6" DC Super Heroes- Catwoman (the modern
one in the back outift with the goggles), Steel, Parasite, Modern
Supergirl (in the blue outfit, Turner-style) with a new head,
and Mongul. They also have the video game versions of Metallo
and Mongul in the Superman Returns movie line.